It was a 4 days long “weekend” at work. Now that is not a common occurrence. We were in two minds if we should travel out for a getaway or instead stay at home. The latter one got our vote. But us being us, we were not going to simply lounge around lazily at home. Instead we decided to do different treks at places not too far from home on the days. I am going to cover each on...

It was time to go on a road trip again. This time it was to Madurai and Thanjavur; two towns in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Unlike most of our trips, this one decided almost impromptu; well not entirely. My wife decided to attend a yoga course in Madurai. We had been talking about visiting the famous Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai for quite a while. A...

Petra done and now it was time to head off to our next destination in Jordan; Wadi Rum.

Most people would not have heard of Wadi Rum. Well, let me try and help “visualize” it. If you have watched any of the following movies and remember the scenes with red sand dunes, then you “know” Wadi Rum already .

The beauty of the “As Siq”, commonly referred to as “The Siq”, needs its own blog post; such is its beauty. And we had been able to appreciate it even more because we saw it transition from a gorge with a water stream to a dry one; something that not everyone gets to see. And may not be desirable too. Well, we got to experience it and it had a happy end. I guess that is what ...